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Global warming conspiracy theory is a collection of allegations that, through worldwide acts of professional and criminal misconduct, the science behind anthropogenic global warming has been invented and is being perpetuated for financial or ideological reasons. With all of the hysteria, all of the fear, all of the phony science, could it be that man-made global warming is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people,Global warming activists are as misguided as they are alarmist

CNSNews.com) - "Groups like ISIL can't destroy us, they can't defeat us," President Obama told reporters in Argentina on Wednesday. "They're not an existential threat to us," he said.

A few sentences later, he described climate change as a "major" problem.

On a day when morgues and hospitals in Brussels were still trying to identify the dead and the grievously injured, Americans among them, Obama described the terrorists as "vicious killers and murderers who have perverted one of the world's great religions, and their primary power, in addition to killing lives, is to strike fear in our societies, to disrupt our societies."http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/obama-climate-change-major-problem-isis-theyre-not-existential-threat

When will the governments (and their all too numerous “useful idiots” of the media) state the unadulterated truth to the people? Carbon (like in wood, coal, oil, natural gas) is an energy source—not a “pollutant”
Presumably, any government has the right to levy a tax on anything they want. In that sense, a tax on “carbon” or any energy source would be no different than a tax on food or clothing; it’s all coming out of your pocket. However, the right to levy taxes does not give government a right to call “carbon” (by their interpretation really meaning “carbon dioxide”) as a form of “pollution.”
Carbon Tax
Whether Canada’s recently elected Prime Minister or any of the country’s provincial premiers think that a “carbon tax” is a good thing or not is all irrelevant. Governments always have the option to place levies and taxes on anything they choose. Whether the people they claim to represent and work for will find such charges acceptable or not can be gauged on the outcome of the next g…

A video posted online Friday captured a nuclear submarine break
through several feet of solid ice to surface in the Arctic Circle.
As part of the Navy’s annual Ice Exercise (ICEX), the 362-foot long USS Hartford surfaced through the ice.— Scroll down for video —
Image source: Screen grab
Image source: Screen grab
Drone footage provided a view of the vessel from above.
Image source: Screen grab
“Submarine operations as part of ICEX provide the necessary training
to maintain a working knowledge of an extremely challenging region that
is very different than any other ocean in the world,” Cmdr. Scott Luers,
ice camp officer-in-tactical-command and deputy director of operations
for Commander Submarine Forces, said in a statement to Military.com.
“Navigating, communicating and maneuvering are all different in an
arctic environment as there are surfaces both above and below a
submarine.”
“ICEX 2016 is our continued commitment to the development of undersea
warfare capabilities an…

California regulators may force a massive solar thermal power plant
in the Mojave Desert to shut down after years of under-producing
electricity — not to mention the plant was blinding pilots flying over
the area and incinerating birds.

The Ivanpah solar plant could be
shut down if state regulators don’t give it more time to meet
electricity production promises it made as part of its power purchase
agreements with utilities, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Ivanpah,
which got a $1.6 billion loan guarantee from the Obama administration,
only produced a fraction of the power state regulators expected it
would.

Germany is drawing up an action plan to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions 95% from 1990 levels by 2050.

Drawing on a public consultation launched last year, the environment
ministry expects to present the proposal to cabinet before the summer
recess.

It is a “mammoth task with profound implications,” environment
minister Barbara Hendricks said at a conference in Berlin. “No sector
will be excluded from this transition.”

The long term target is at the higher end of the 80-95% range agreed
across the EU, based on holding global temperature rise to 2C.

Hendricks stressed the importance of the aspirational 1.5C limit on
global warming agreed at last year’s UN climate talks in Paris.

“There are places in the world where the extent of global warming can
mean the difference between survival and destruction,” she said.
http://www.climatechangenews.com/2016/03/18/germany-mulls-minimal-carbon-emissions-in-a-generation/

Junk Science: NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration seemed eager in January to declare that 2015 was the hottest year on record. But they left out data that tell a somewhat different story.
When comparing temperatures, it would seem instructive to include a lengthy timeline. That’s not what happened, though, when NASA and NOAA came together to scare the public with their announcement, according to a skeptical website.
“In their ‘hottest year ever’ press briefing, NOAA included this graph, which stated that they have a 58-year-long radiosonde temperature record. But they only showed the last 37 years in the graph,” says Real Science.
Why would NOAA do such a thing? Because the fuller story contradicts the man-made global warming narrative. The government was “hiding the rest of the data,” says Real Science, which “showed as much pre-1979 cooling as the post-1979 warming.”
Indeed, when temperature data going back to 1957 are attached to the front of the 1979-2015 …

Does this beat four years of Supreme Court nominations when it comes to choosing the nominee for the Republican Party? Ted Cruz has to hope so.
Stumping through Florida, Cruz told Sean Hannity at a rally interview
to be broadcast tonight that if Barack Obama and Loretta Lynch aren’t up
for prosecuting Hillary Clinton in the e-mail scandal, he certainly
will be:
Appearing during an Orlando rally that also served as an
interview to air on Fox News’s “Hannity,” host Sean Hannity asked Cruz
if he’d continue to go after Clinton.
“Let’s say that the FBI makes a criminal referral to the Justice
Department and it is ignored. And you become president, the statute of
limitations had not passed — would you aggressively go after Hillary
Clinton if the FBI believes she committed felonies?” Hannity said.
“Absolutely yes, and there is a principle here that matters,” Cruz said.
“This country was founded on the principle that no one is above the
law, and whether it is the Clintons or whet…

The media release is below.
Read the report here.
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March 11, 2016FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE New Report Says Science Can Estimate Influence of Climate Change on Some Types of Extreme Events
WASHINGTON — It is now possible to estimate the influence of climate change on some types of extreme events, such as heat waves, drought, and heavy precipitation, says a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. The relatively new science of extreme event attribution has advanced rapidly in the past decade owing to improvements in the understanding of climate and weather mechanisms and the analytical methods used to study specific events, but more research is required to increase its reliability, ensure that results are presented clearly, and better understand smaller scale and shorter duration weather extremes such as hurricanes and thunderstorms, said the committee that conducted the study and wrote the report.
“An increasingly common question after an extreme we…

Who Gets Chronic Dry Eye, and Why Do They Get It? Chronic Dry Eye (CDE) disease
can occur in anyone, but people 50 years of age or older are at
greatest risk of developing it. While Chronic Dry Eye is more common in
women, it also occurs in men.
In many people, Chronic Dry Eye can be caused by or associated with:
Growing olderChronic Dry Eye disease is more common in people 50 years of age or older
Hormonal changesChronic Dry Eye disease is
associated with hormonal changes, which are very common among women who
are experiencing menopause or who are postmenopausal
InflammationChronic Dry Eye disease may involve inflammation:
Inflammation may affect the glands, which can decrease tear production Inflammation can also
affect the glands’ ability to create and maintain the lipid layer, or
top layer, of the tear film. The lipid layer slows tear evaporation
Other conditions
Chronic Dry Eye may be associated with other eye or health conditions. Some o…

Facts About Dry Eye | National Eye InstituteWhat are the causes of dry eye?Dry eye can be a temporary or chronic condition:Dry eye can be a side effect of some medications, including
antihistamines, nasal decongestants, tranquilizers, certain blood
pressure medicines, Parkinson’s medications, birth control pills
and anti-depressants. Skin disease on or around the eyelids can result in dry eye. Diseases of the glands in the eyelids, such as meibomian gland dysfunction, can cause dry eye. Dry eye can occur in women who are pregnant. Women who are on hormone replacement therapy may experience dry eye
symptoms. Women taking only estrogen are 70 percent more likely to
experience dry eye, whereas those taking estrogen and progesterone have a
30 percent increased risk of developing dry eye. Dry eye can also develop after the refractive surgery known as
LASIK. These symptoms generally last three to six months, but may last
longer in some cases. Dry eye can result from chemical and the…

So you know what must be done.
The media release is below.
###Greenhouse gas ‘bookkeeping’ turned on its head
CARNEGIE INSTITUTION
Washington, D.C.–For the first time scientists have looked at the net
balance of the three major greenhouse gases–carbon dioxide, methane,
and nitrous oxide–for every region of Earth’s landmasses. They found
surprisingly, that human-induced emissions of methane and nitrous oxide
from ecosystems overwhelmingly surpass the ability of the land to soak
up carbon dioxide emissions, which makes the terrestrial biosphere a
contributor to climate change. The results published in the March 10,
2016, Nature, revises our understanding of how human activity
contributes to global warming.

Co-author Anna Michalak of Carnegie’s Department of Global Ecology
remarked, “Typically we think of land as a net ‘sink’ of carbon dioxide.
But we found that the sign of the human-induced impact is reversed if
we also take into account methane and nitrous oxide.”

On August 3, 1492, Columbus set sail from Palos, Spain, with three small ships, the Santa Maria, the Pinta, and the Nina. On October 12, the expedition reached land, probably Watling Island in the Bahamas. Later that month, Columbus sighted Cuba
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/columbus-reaches-the-new-world

Records of Spanish shipwrecks combined with tree-ring records show
the period 1645 to 1715 had the fewest Caribbean hurricanes since 1500,
according to new University of Arizona-led research. The study is the
first to use shipwrecks as a proxy for hurricane activity.

The researchers found a 75 percent reduction in the number of
Caribbean hurricanes from 1645-1715, a time with little sunspot activity
and cool temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere.

“We’re the first to use shipwrecks to study hurricanes in the past,”
said lead author Valerie Trouet, an associate professor in t…

A group of scientists recently put out a new study confirming the
15-year “hiatus” in global warming. That study made headlines, but what
went largely unnoticed was a major admission made by the paper’s
authors: the climate models were wrong.

“There is this mismatch between what the climate models are producing
and what the observations are showing,” John Fyfe, Canadian climate
modeler and lead author of the new paper, told Nature. “We can’t ignore it.”

“Reality has deviated from our expectations – it is perfectly normal
to try and understand this difference,” Ed Hawkins, co-author of the
study and United Kingdom climate scientist, echoed in a blog post.

This is a huge admission by climate scientists and a big victory for
skeptics of man-made global warming who have for years been pointing to a
mismatch between climate model predictions and actual temperature
observations.

Overall, the paper is an admission by prominent members of the
‘mainstream’ scientific community t…